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Robert Kingett 23h ago

I know blind people that willingly don't describe their images on Facebook.

I know blind people, actually, the majority of blind people, that *love* cloud based LLMs and can't stand any critique of the shitty people behind the tool, let alone the companies.

I know blind people that want TTS narrating audiobooks and audio description for everyone instead of humans.

I know blind people that sincerely believe audiobooks should *never* be used in an educational setting because Braille is better so audiobooks should *never* be used in an educational setting.

I know blind people that argue against having audio description and against accessibility because we should be fully independent.

Sighted people must understand that in the blind community especially, there's a *LOT* of blind people and even otherwise disabled people that *hate* all this “PC nonsense” PC is political correctness, but they're arguing against their own interests.

It happens in my own gay community too so instead of listening to blind people that hate other blind people, why not listen to a collective of blind people/other disabled people working to better local or digital environments.

I honestly didn't like the Against Access article when it came out, and I certainly don't like this quote being used to argue *against* access/accessibility instead of participating in an ongoing conversation about an optional filter.

Disagree with the filter all you want but *don't use another disabled person's shortsightedness to take away my access.* https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29496#issuecomment-4429977820 #Accessibility #AltText #A11y #Disability #Blind #Mastodon #Fediverse

Add a way to filter posts that contain images with no alt text · Issue #29496 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch It would be nice if there would be some way of filtering out posts from one's feed that do not contain alt-text for images. Ostensibly, this would be a fairly simple query to write for the ba...

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Veronica Explains 18h ago

So many tech bros are coming at me right now arguing that yes, in fact, Windows users or Facebook users don't deserve privacy.

Busting out the bold markdown for this: you're wrong.

Everyone deserves privacy.

Suda the drifter

8h ago

I know where they make the crows

Cursed Silicon 13h ago

Grabbed a newer version of the InstallShield Wizard program and

THERE'S A MAC VERSION?!

𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬'𝑺 𝑨 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑬𝑳𝑫 𝑾𝑰𝒁𝑨𝑹𝑫 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑰𝑩𝑴 𝑨𝑺/400?!

@lazyb0y no amount of description, however "thorough" or "precise", will be enough. Dijkstra knew this decades ago:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)

Mathaetaes 17h ago

@rysiek Gitlab isn't solving a problem. They're optimizing based on near-term incentives.

Right now, the investment money is all chummed with AI hype. If you want to see near-term valuation increase, you pivot to AI.

It's just like in the '90s when anyone could say 'web' in a VC pitch and get funded.

... And just like in the early 00s, when that bubble bursts, some companies will have figured it out, and a lot of companies will fail catastrophically... and there will be people who redirected their entire career to align with what industry was asking for, who will left with difficult-to-market skills.

And nothing is going to change, because every VC sees their investment as the next Amazon rather than the next Pets.com.

And if you've read that far and you're in IT, I have one word for you: unionize. ✊

The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.

Slaves would be good though.

And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.

No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.